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Burning backups: what brand of DVD-R?

i have an external HDD to play my backups, but just recently, my aunt told me about her portable HDD losing all the files when she dropped it. she had to put everything back in it, lucky she had all her files in CD backups.

i have original games that i dare not open again as part of my collection (quite a few STILL, around 17 games lol but expensive = MUST NOT BE DAMAGED!), and thinking maybe i can burn .iso backups for use in case my HDD messes up, and to lend my 3 year old little brother when he plays (he cannot read yet, thus a DVD seems to be like the most probable idea, he just has to put it in and click on 1 channel. i dare not give him the originals, he scratches all discs in the house within 3 uses [from experience w/ his ps2 disks]- he plays mario party, mario kart, etc.. those kid friendly games.)

question: will any kind of dvd-r work? there's a shop here that carries all kinds of CDs imaginable. expensive DVDs, unbranded DVDs, DVDs with cartoon characters, etc. just wondering whether i could just use the cheap ones or the more expensive ones.

again no piracy in mind, i just want to keep my collection safe and my backups backed-up with physical copies. yes i am that paranoid. i have no intention of pirating my mere 17 games, lol.

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have a look here, here is a short guide.
use verbatim -R (not the life series, rubbish) at 2x or 4x speed. that should work.
to get the .iso from your originals, dump your games to harddrive by using your favorite loader or any dumping app /cleanrip or similar.

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ok so i tried it out with the smallest game that i have: Wii Play.
the .wbfs turned out to be 0.9GB, and when i restored it into an .iso it became 4GB? is that really how its supposed to work or am i doing something wrong?

Yes when you put your games onto the hdd they get scrubbed down to that size.
So no you havent done anything wrong all wii games when unscrubbed are 4.38gb except dual layers.
Just burn that iso onto disc.

If you want to store the iso on the computer you can scrub the iso using wii scrubber then rar it up and it will reduce in size.